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DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). A Christmas Carol in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1843.
12mo (152 x 108 mm). Half-title, hand-colored frontispiece. Early calf-backed boards (small chip at head, some splitting to joints). Provenance: contemporary ownership signature on half-title.
COPYRIGHT EDITION, published within a few days of the first English edition to secure an international copyright. According to Todd and Bowden, this Tauchnitz printing could have preceded the Chapman and Hall edition by several days. Gimbel A82; Todd & Bowden, p. 780.